If you ever really want to quiet a room full of 5th grade students, try telling them this: “I’m going to let you spend 1 hour a week studying whatever you want. Now pick a topic.” That was, in essence, the way I introduced Genius Hour to my class for the first time many years … Read more
My colleague, Daryn, pointed me toward this app a few weeks ago, and I finally had the chance to download it and try it out this weekend. North Star Smart Stars Survey is an iPad app produced by Fablevision. It was designed by Peter Reynolds (author of The Dot, Ish, The North Star, and other books) … Read more
The website describes its purpose best: “APPitic is an directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.” On this site, you can browse for apps by: Preschool, Themes, Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, … Read more